Rolls out software, silicon, systems munitions and allies at NY event
Juniper this week stepped up its battle with Cisco on multiple fronts with a sweeping technology and partnership announcement in New York. The event was hosted by the New York Stock Exchange, Juniper’s highest profile enterprise account for its high-performance networking thrust.
There, Juniper laid down the gauntlet. It once again pitched JUNOS as an open platform upon which to write and host virtually any application on any platform; it unveiled its newest chipset, called “Trio,” that CTO Pradeep Sindhu claimed could download the entire Library of Congress in 12 seconds; it rolled out MX-series Ethernet routers designed for massive scale that, when equipped with Trio, provide a 2.6x to 4x performance gain over Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 and Cisco’s ASR 9000 routers, respectively; and it reiterated the deep partnerships it has with IBM, Dell and BLADE Network Technologies for data center and other IT requirements. IBM, for example, is now OEMing Juniper’s SRX Services Gateway in addition to the previously announced routers and switches it is private labeling.
Missing, however, was meat on the bones its Stratus cloud computing intiative, such as product deliverables. Also, there was a lot of table pounding on its ambitions in the data center but absolutely no mention of its intentions with standards and technology like FibreChannel over Ethernet. And though Juniper clarified its direction with 4G wireless — it disclosed Project Falcon, an internally developed mobile packet core and subscriber management platform — it gave no timelines or partnership identities around it.
Indeed, Juniper’s splash may have been too broadly focused on impressive, gee whiz technology and not specifically enough on transitional markets — like FCoE and 4G mobile — and how and when it plans to address them with product. But it’s clear the company has been forging the iron for its weapons; can it arm itself adequately and shoot straight and true?
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